Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?

[Bryan O'Neal]

Excuse my squirrely logic here, but what is the difference between
connecting to Goggles imap server and connecting to your own. If the client
can not handle the amount of mail on a professionally hosted server why
could it handle it better connecting to your own server?  

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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan
Dayley
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:31 PM
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Subject: Re: Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> ----
> Evolution looks/feels like Outlook which may provide comfort. I have 
> used it for many years and I'm comfortable with it and I am on a lot 
> of mail lists and often get 1000+ e-mails a day.
>
> I find that less important than the actual e-mail program used is how 
> e-mail is stored because if you have a LOT of e-mail, local stores of
> POP3 account e-mail in mbox can really drag down the performance and 
> make it hard to move from program to program.
>
> I know some will think this is overkill but I think that the only way 
> to go is to run your own IMAP server, use fetchmail or getmail to 
> retrieve e-mail from various accounts if you have to and use dovecot 
> or cyrus-imapd to provide IMAP to mail clients. This way, you can use 
> whatever mail program you want or try them all and from various 
> computers and your mail is already marked read/replied to/deleted etc.
>
> Once a serious e-mail user catches on to the value of having your own 
> IMAP server, they will never give it up.

I completely agree with Craig.  It's silly to expect any email client to
handle 2GB of email a day.  If they are getting that, they need an
infrastructure to handle it.  Get an IMAP server and then they can use
whatever client they want.

Alan
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